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=> Off Topic Discussions => Topic started by: Stevernator on February 06, 2009, 03:15:43 AM
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Hello again,
I stumbled accross a site called http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/
It has the books of the NT, some apocrophya and writings of the early church fathers. I thought it would be a good resource for anyone who is interested.
-Steve
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A note of caution :) from http://forums.bible-truths.com/index.php/topic,5808.15.html
The Catholic Church did not canonize the Scripture, nor did the Protestant Church canonize the Scripture - THEY WERE ALREADY CANONIZED BY GOD'S SERVANTS HUNDREDS OF YEARS EARLIER!
What happens if we add the Catholic numbering of 39 books for the Old Testament to the 27 books of the New? We get 66 - that's man's number. So in order to avoid such an obvious unsavory number, the Catholic added 11 apocryphal books to their 66 number, bring the total to 77, a more godly number, albeit, not an accurate one. Such nonsense does not justify the addition of apocryphal books which do not belong to the canon.
There were 22 books in the Hebrew Scripture and 27 books in the Greek Scriptures (22 collected by Peter, and 5 more [Gospel of John and I, II & III John and Revelation]) added by John = 49 or 7 X 7 - Completeness and Perfection! Not one can be added nor one taken away - WE HAVE THE COMPLETE BIBLE!
~Arc